Facebook for Joomla 1.5 - Open Graph Actions, Login, and So Much More

This new Joomla 1.5 compatible release follows our extremely successful launch of Facebook's Open Graph Action integration for Joomla 2.5 in late November. With the new JFBConnect v4.3 release for Joomla 1.5 Facebook integration, you'll be able to register and log users in with their Facebook accounts, automatically post 'actions' to their Facebook Timeline as they read your content or otherwise interact with your site, let your users send invitations for your site, specify the Joomla Open Graph tags, integrate Joomla with your Facebook Page, and so much more.

This release will be the final feature release for Joomla 1.5 Facebook integration. But don't worry, it's been packed with features over it's 4 years of development. Additionally, we will be fully supporting it for the foreseeable future with bug-fixes and technical support for all of our users.

With JFBConnect, you'll be able to easily manage your Facebook Joomla 1.5 features, and be ready to move to Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0 when you're ready.

Joomla 1.5 is still a very popular platform, and your website deserves the best and most fully featured Facebook functionality. It deserves the Facebook integration that Joomla.org and 10,000+ other websites use. It deserves JFBConnect!

To start integrating Facebook for Joomla 1.5, subscribe below and you'll be up and running in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee:

Facebook for Joomla 3.0

It's coming! With our final Joomla 1.5 feature release out the door, we're in the final stages of our Facebook for Joomla 3.x release. The updated version which fully supports Facebook for Joomla 2.5 and 3.0+ will be out in January, 2013.

We're as excited as you to see the best Joomla Facebook integration for the 2 most recent versions of Joomla.

Alex Andreae

Alex co-founded SourceCoast Web Development in 2008. Based in sunny Florida, SourceCoast develops extensions for integrating your Joomla powered website with popular social networks. He has spoken at more than a dozen Joomla User Groups and Joomla Days, including the Joomla World Conference in both 2012 and 2013. Topics have included social networking for Joomla, running a business around Joomla extensions, and Joomla development.

You can see our sourcecoast.com website as a Page at https://www.facebook.com/SourceCoast/app_116488908376294

Saurabh JainThursday, 19 February 2015

Great -- Thank You - I have this on https://www.facebook.com/Engineering.Wall/app_291039457687699 but not working .... Just installing SSL will make this work ??? I dont want to rum my site on https....

SourceCoastThursday, 19 February 2015

Yes, Facebook requires that you have an SSL certificate for your site and that the Secure Tab URL setting is filled in. If you continue to have problems with Page Tabs after setting that up, please post in our technical support forums at https://www.sourcecoast.com/forums

SourceCoast

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

JFBConnect v6.2.4 is out now! This release primarily improves Channel setup, Open Graph tags, and Social Profiles.

What does the future of JFBConnect hold? Any thoughts of putting out a roadmap with an emphasis on user input?

SourceCoastWednesday, 17 December 2014

JFBConnect is always evolving. A year and a half ago, we only supported Facebook integration. Now, we support 10 different social networks. Over the same period, we've added social 'channels' for posting content from your site to various social networks, profile integration for more 3rd party extensions and other features.
In 2015, we'll be adding (at least) Yahoo integration as well as more social channels, easier administration options, and improved Open Graph support. One of the main focuses we have in 2015 is making the features we primarily have for a select few networks, and Facebook in specific, available for the other networks we support.. for example, requests (invitations) and more social sharing options.
In general, almost all of our features come from user feedback. If there's something we're missing or something you're looking for, let us know either here or in our support forums. We investigate all requests.
I hope that helps explain!

@sourcecoastAlex Andreae

Monday, 15 December 2014

JFBConnect v6.2.4 is out now! This release primarily improves Channel setup, Open Graph tags, and Social Profiles. https://t.co/aEPUfKzP9m

JFBConnect v6.2.3 is available now with support for Community Builder v2.0.3

Tarik Barrouhi

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Hi There,
I have fully integrated the plugin into my jomsocial site and it was working fine when trying to sign in with facebook, however after implementing SSL it is no longer working.
I get the following message
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Can you help?

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SourceCoastThursday, 23 October 2014

If you're having issues with JFBConnect, please post in our support forums. They're continuously monitored to help all of our users. https://www.sourcecoast.com/forums

SourceCoast

Wednesday, 01 October 2014

JFBConnect is available now.. with a huge feature list to go along with it. Get it while it's hot and enjoy easy social integration with your #Joomla website!

JFBConnect v6.2 is coming later this month. Points for social sharing in EasySocial, JomSocial and Alpha User Points; Amazon, Meetup and WindowsLive authentication; more widgets; more performance; more of what you need for social network integration into your Joomla site!

I had questions before i purchase jfbconnect. When i try to login by facebook as new user, does jfbconnect gets my app scoped id instead real facebook id? I guess by this id fb identify me when i next login after all those registrations or connecting existing account. If it is then how i get that id later if i set it as username?. When i change/delete my application can my users still login the way they did with previous application? This is very important please answer asap.

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SourceCoastSunday, 31 August 2014

For all Apps created after May 1, 2014, the ID returned for the user will be the App Scoped ID. With that ID though, you can obtain all the user's profile information, including a link to their Facebook profile. That ID is also used for later logins to your site, and JFBConnect automatically takes care of associating the ID Facebook returns (either the real ID or App Scoped one) with their Joomla account.
You shouldn't delete your Application once your using it on your site or else problems with the app scoped ID could happen. JFBConnect does have multiple ways to let a user associate their Facebook account to an existing account though, which would work even if you setup a new Facebook Application.

Mihir RoySunday, 31 August 2014

I have no concern with login later using joomla username and login, but i am talking about login by FB that if somehow FB deletes my fB application which i was using to make login by facebook for our users then they will not be able to login with FB as you guys store a application scoped user id and compare it to make login by FB later. In that case what can i do?

SourceCoastSunday, 31 August 2014

If Facebook deletes your app, you're likely doing something really wrong and they may not let you create another application altogether.
With that said, again, JFBConnect will let users update their mapping for an existing Joomla account to a new application, if you had to make one. This can be done by the user or by a setting in JFBConnect which will automatically map existing Joomla users to a Facebook account if the email addresses on both accounts is the same.

Mihir RoyTuesday, 02 September 2014

Fb user may change Email so email comparison night not work. Anyway, as i took a look in js code, new user redirected to registration page after fb login but no fb id is passed with url. Is there any dependency on curl that fb info is retrieved by server side php code utilizing curl? Not all server have these methods enabled.

SourceCoastTuesday, 02 September 2014

Yes, you need cURL installed on your site. 99+% of servers have this installed and it's required to get more profile information about a user, including their avatar.